Why should I go static and why should I do it with Forge?

Static websites are easy to build, simple to maintain and scale, and better yet, with Forge they're lightning fast too. Taking your website and content static is the right call and Forge is the way to do it. More about static.

Small Businesses You want to host a small website that tells customers who you are what you do and how to reach you.

Web Startups You're a studio that knows its way around creating static content, you just want somewhere to put it.

Forge is made for hosting static websites like yours, and making them absolutely fly.Sign Up for free

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When you sign up you'll have one site available with a 1GB per month bandwidth cap. Upgrading to our Copper Plan lets you create up to 10 sites using your own custom domains with uncapped bandwidth (billed at 20¢ / GB over a 10GB threshold). That's an undeniably good deal.

Your Forge account is billed based on how much bandwidth you use. On our basic plan, if you stay under 10GB each month, you'll only be charged the base rate of $10. Extra bandwidth over that is charged at 20¢ per gigabyte.

How much bandwidth will I need?

That depends! The more images and assets your site has, the more bandwidth you'll use serving up your site.
The more traffic your site gets, the more bandwidth you'll use.

As a rough guide, the average bandwidth for a Forge site is about 1GB per month. That means you could host 10 sites on our Basic plan and still not be charged for extra bandwidth. Nice!

How does billing work?

Your Forge account is billed as a monthly subscription, with no minimum term so you can cancel, upgrade or downgrade as and when you want to.

We'll bill your payment method once a month for the base rate as indicated by the plan, along with any additional bandwidth costs you incurred during the month.

Give Forge a try for free right now

When you sign up you'll have one site available with a 1GB per month bandwidth cap. Upgrading to our Copper Plan lets you create up to 10 sites using your own custom domains with uncapped bandwidth (billed at 20¢ / GB over a 10GB threshold). That's an undeniably good deal.

Features

Features never seen in a hosting platform before. Until now.

Our features set and user interface is like no other hosting services’ you’ve used. Carefully considered, crafted and geared to make hosting easier than it’s ever been before — no other hosting company does it like this.

Version based history Every deploy you make to your site on Forge is kept in the timeline, ready to rollback to.

Optimized for speed The only thing faster than our control panel is the very website you're hosting with it.

Collaborate with others Invite anyone to a Forge site and they can upload builds and manage it too.

Live site previews See your site right in the Forge interface.

File differences View the file changes between versions.

Drag & Drop, or sync with Dropbox or GitHub. Your choice.

Drag & Drop Zip up your static site and just drag and drop it to the Forge window. As easy as that.

Sync with Dropbox Forge can follow a Dropbox folder, store the changes and then let you deploy the changes when you like.

Sync with GitHub Forge can also sync with a folder in a GitHub repo and deploy a new version whenever you're ready.

The best features in Forge are the ones behind the scenes.

We've built Forge with static websites in mind, so when we say we're optimized for serving up your content quicker than anyone else, it's because that was goal number one. Here's a little of what we do to achieve this —

Read our Docs for more about the technologies behind Forge and how to make the most of them

Give Forge a try for free right now

When you sign up you'll have one site available with a 1GB per month bandwidth cap. Upgrading to our Copper Plan lets you create up to 10 sites using your own custom domains with uncapped bandwidth (billed at 20¢ / GB over a 10GB threshold). That's an undeniably good deal.

Support

There are a few tricks to using Forge.

Read this page for more information, tips and tricks and how to get the most out of our service.

TurboJS tips

Put your Javascripts in the <head> element.

TurboJS is a brand-new javascript library developed in collaboration with Alex MacCaw. TurboJS is a unique new engine, designed to serve all your site's pages in the background - making your site super, duper, extra fast.

Custom Domain tips

Sometimes it's hard to get your head around DNS settings.

So we've put together some instructions to help guide you through the process.
Launch Helper

General tips

Concatenate your stylesheets and javascripts

Got a bunch of stylesheets? Put them all together to make them extra speedy. This means fewer HTTP requests, which means less overhead for your users, and faster-loading pages.

We're a big fan of having an open and collaborative roadmap. So one of the first things I want to do, is get the tools in place and invite you to participate in the future of Forge. That's why we've opened up a Public Trello Board, so you know what we're thinking.

Forge is a wonderful way to host your static sites. But Hammer is a beautiful way to build them. This short course, provided by Ian Yates via TutsPlus will get you all the way from setup to deployment and teach you why static is the future. With three hours of video lessons, you'll soon be building static websites with ease.

Give Forge a try for free right now

When you sign up you'll have one site available with a 1GB per month bandwidth cap. Upgrading to our Copper Plan lets you create up to 10 sites using your own custom domains with uncapped bandwidth (billed at 20¢ / GB over a 10GB threshold). That's an undeniably good deal.